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This Central Intelligence Agency file is a compilation of Top Secret Director's Log entries from September and December 1951. The entries are daily reports from CIA offices such as OSO, OPC and OO on covert operations and intelligence matters. They cover leaflet drops over mainland China, agent teams sent into Albania and Bulgaria, plans for defector detention centers in Panama, liaison with British, French and Spanish services, and the opening of the Trotsky papers at Harvard. None of the entries mentions UFOs.

TOP SECRET
DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM, 11 Sept.- 8:30 AM,
1 2 Sept.
1TE OF DATE ATO
)CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT . ACTION
OSO
Bucharest aubhorities brought to trial Eraldo Pintori, a
clerk of the Italian Legation, with nine others on charges
of "espionage operated by the Vatican together with
American, British, Italian, and Swiss officials". Pintori
was a member of a courier chain using Italian diplomatic
pouch channels and is known to have transmitted Vatican
funds to the former Papal Nuncio in Bucharest. He was
known to the former Chief, OSO Bucharest, but was not
used operationally. He is believed to be unaware that
OSO exploited the courier system for a time.
The British High Commissioner to Southeast Asia recently
sought a meeting with the Sultan of Jogjakarta to ofBer
British assistance in an intelligence training program.
The Sultan, a key figure in OSO plans to gain eventual
control of Indonesian security and intelligence forces,
declined on the grounds that he could not, as a private
citizen, reply to such an offer. OSO Djakarta believes
he prefers to cooperate with the u.S.
A Chinese claning to represent a minor Chinese Political
party has proposed to OSO Through a State political officer
in Hong. Kong that the U.S. support a conference in
Thailand which would declare opposition to the Communist
regime in China and undertake anti-Communist political and
propaganda work. Primary OPC-interest has been recognized
in studying the proposal, and State has been advised for
the information of its Policy and Planning Staff.
After presenting a letter to D/DCI from-General Truscott
on 10 September, Mr. T. L. Squier of HICOG was scheduled
to have meetings with OSO on Tuesday morning, OPC Tuesday
afternoon, and OCI.Wednesday.
-E(CONTINUED) COPY # / OF 5. SEP 111951
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